On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> Barry, is this a test/example only or would you plan on keeping
> something like that on your site even if it is not adopted for cran
> task views? If it is not adopted elsewhere and you are willing to
> maintain it, I would like to link to
Hi,
In a way, a simple text based system is clean and is consistent with
the plain text requirements of the listservs, and interacting with R
through code/text. However, for people with different backgrounds, it
can seem unappealing. I definitely believe your page is more
inviting.
I work at a
Regardless of the page's other merits (looks nice to me), I did enjoy
seeing my favorite teacher's (Dev Basu's) elephant in the Bayesian box.
Thanks for that.
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Actually I was also thinking about the R homepage last time when Barry
brought up this task view issue. The R website seems like an extreme
outlier among websites of many other programming languages. It is so
difficult to find another website today which still uses ,
and the whole site is almost pl
On 21-02-2012, at 13:58, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> A little while ago here we had a short discussion about Task Views - I
> think ignited by someone saying 'how many times do I have to say "have
> you read the Optimisation Task View?"?' and I poured some fuel on that
> fire by saying "Task Views"
Must be a big "posterior"... I especially love this pun.
Regards,
Yihui
On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, Ben Bolker wrote:
> Barry Rowlingson lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let
>> down by their hidden position on the R web sites (tu
> Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let
> down by their hidden position on the R web sites (tucked away as the
> third element of a sub-menu of a CRAN mirror site linked to by the
> CRAN link from the Download menu on the main R home page). The index
> page is rather
> o While this is good for distributing web services, it limits the
> possibilities in terms of web design. In think that the CRAN maintainers do
> not use Javascript, for example.
Did you try it without js? The jquery masonry plugin should have ok
fall-back behaviour if JS is disabled. (Althoug
Barry,
thanks for the ideas and the suggestion of a more interesting title page
for the task views. Just a few comments from me as the person coordinating
the task views on CRAN:
o The design of CRAN task view presentation/installation was chosen to be
parallel to CRAN package presentation/i
Barry Rowlingson lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
> Anyway, I did say that Task Views were rather brilliant, but were let
> down by their hidden position on the R web sites (tucked away as the
> third element of a sub-menu of a CRAN mirror site linked to by the
> CRAN link from the Download menu on the m
A little while ago here we had a short discussion about Task Views - I
think ignited by someone saying 'how many times do I have to say "have
you read the Optimisation Task View?"?' and I poured some fuel on that
fire by saying "Task Views" was a stupid name.
Anyway, I did say that Task Views were
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